Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But while people think of me perhaps as just a guitar producer who does n't go anywhere near sequencers , I actually use them quite a lot . |
| 2 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 3 | The status of general courses is thus as much a matter of context and clientele as content , and seems likely to change only if the latter change . |
| 4 | This is designer socialism : the belief that buying tassled loafers rather than winklepickers , is somehow as much a PR of the struggle as being on the picket line at Wapping . |
| 5 | The right of refugee return remained firmly part of the rhetoric but it was less clear whether it was still as firmly a part of policy . |
| 6 | The boys barricaded the gates and mounted the city walls , a move probably as much a result of a popular rebellion against Lundy 's action as a defiant gesture . |
| 7 | Also as both a rugby player and as a cricketer he played the game with distinction at first-class level . |
| 8 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 9 | The Smiths had their day , made the '80s safe for ironic excitement and indie pop that was n't crap , and are now as much a part of the nostalgia industry-chart museum as The Rolling Stones . |
| 10 | In all of this — in matters appertaining to ‘ taste ’ , that is — there is a new kind of predatory cruelty in the air , which is now as much a part of the successful survivor ( also known as the yuppie ) as Paul Smith togs , a Betty Jackson outfit and extruded plastic or brushed aluminium accessories . |
| 11 | Many police officers today , even in the higher ranks , can not remember carrying out their police duties without the assistance of the computer , and it is now as much a part of police back-up as the police car and police radio . |
| 12 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 13 | Seven out of 10 families visit a local beauty spot or attraction at least once a month , according to the research by Gallop , with three out of 10 people ‘ getting away from it all ’ as often as once a week . |
| 14 | Only 5 per cent of the children saw their parents as often as once a month ; 41 per cent had no parental contact . |
| 15 | Beginning in 1910 , it put on performances as often as once a month , at which texts from , for example , Nietzsche , Rilke , Wedekind , and others were read . |
| 16 | Perhaps as often as once a month , depending partly on the amount of dust in the air , you should get out the drive cleaning kit and service the heads in the way I 've described before trouble starts . |
| 17 | The Japanese would like such a declaration to involve regular summit meetings , perhaps as often as twice a year , between the Japanese prime minister and the Community president — like the informal meetings that Toshiki Kaifu has been having with President Bush . |
| 18 | The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else . |
| 19 | It is worth noting , however , that consent to a political authority entails a promise to obey it ( as well as perhaps an obligation to support it in other ways ) . |
| 20 | In the demonstration New Scientist played with , which involved data about a doughnut factory , there were confusing references to SPVSRS ( supervisors ) as well as quite a lot of mathematical symbols . |
| 21 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 22 | I notice we have a chart on the back of the door here as well a circle measured off in angles and er this is lovely it 's got Venus |
| 23 | Eliot saw the savage here as simply a base from which to start in the critique of the modern . |
| 24 | The Government spends nearly £3,000 million a year on civil research and development — at least as high a proportion of national income as the Japanese or Americans . |
| 25 | And the issue is not simply that of deteriorating staff-student ratios , which has attracted so much attention , but at least as much a question of capital investment . |
| 26 | An observer summed up the typical bourgeois of Lille as a man who ‘ fears God , but above all his wife , and reads the Echo du Nord ’ , and this is at least as likely a reading of the facts of bourgeois family life as the male-formulated theory of female helplessness and dependence , sometimes pathologically exaggerated into the masculine dream , and occasional practice , of the child-wife selected and formed by the future husband . |
| 27 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 28 | ln the early 1930s part of my childhood was spent at Redcar on Teesside , then as now a down at heel seaside resort surrounded by steel works and wind swept dunes . |
| 29 | He was ultimately as much an oracle , a high priest , a pope , a spiritual leader , as he was a king . |
| 30 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |